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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






2. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






3. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






4. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






5. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






6. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






7. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






8. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






9. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






10. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






11. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






12. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






13. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






14. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






15. A short saying with a moral.






16. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






17. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






18. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






19. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






20. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






21. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






22. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






23. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






24. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






25. A character struggles against some outside force.






26. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






27. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






28. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






29. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






30. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






31. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






32. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






33. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






34. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






35. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






36. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






37. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






38. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






39. The person who 'tells' the story.






40. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






41. What a story or play is about.






42. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






43. The time and place of a story or play.






44. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






45. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






46. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






47. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






48. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






49. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






50. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.